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[Bebop]

Loved reading this thread again.

Makes me realize how bad of a fabricator I am, really

Beautiful work, and I'm glad to see it used as it should be :smoke:

 

[1tonyj]

Thxs fellas....Bebop ready to see yours done....hurry up lol!

 

[smbroady82]

Thxs fellas....Bebop ready to see yours done....hurry up lol!

looks awesome man! Idk how I missed it up and running

 

[Dwalk]

Awesome buggy, very talented Fabricator.

 

[FlatlandFSJ]

Awesome buggy, very talented Fabricator.

Thanks man, it was a blast riding with you this weekend. And thanks again for showing us around HPO, we would have never found all that stuff with my navigation and Rays driving

 

[1tonyj]

So i lost second gear in the tranny (th350)......and yep the hardened intermediate sprag blew to pieces lol. So I bought a new direct drum that has been fitted with the larger 36 element hardened sprag and ordered a new piston that has been machined to accept an extra friction and steel. Hopefully this will help keep the trans together.

 

[The-Boss]

I had the same failure on my th350. I was going to go the same route with a 36 element sprag but ED at PTC recomend I go with a diode instead. I had never heard of it but so far so good. My guess is you will be fine.

 

[ranger11]

Where did you get your parts from?

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[1tonyj]

Where did you get your parts from?

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Drum and sprag are from TCI and the piston is from CKperformance

 

[ranger11]

Thanks.

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[1tonyj]

While the trans is out figured it was time to upgrade a couple things. Decided to drop in one of these Improved Racing oil pan baffle systems as well as upgrade my two tranny coolers to these Improved Racing coolers....which are backed by 10" fans.

 

[1tonyj]

old steel oil baffle out...new trap door baffle trey in. Will see how much this helps...figure it cant hurt.

 

[DiscoDino]

GREAT built...will reference some of the stuff you've done as I start my Single Seat buggy...

 

[1tonyj]

Well after getting ****ed around for a month with a local trans builder I finally did what I should have done in the very beginning and called Ed at PTC. Told him what my buggy specs were and what I wanted and seven business days later it was delivered! Big THANK YOU to PTC and Ed for the customer service and understanding what guys like us do with our rigs. Now to get this all back together.

 

[crzyamerican]

Love this rig Ray! Great job Dylan! It looks and performs great! It rides soooo nice!

I need some panels, console reworked, and a re-wire!

 

[1tonyj]

Update to the build...I got tired of having to pull off the trail to let the buggy cool on long rides and on hard beat downs, so Dillion called up CBR and had them build a custom radiator to fit the rear of the buggy. This should take care of the cooling issues....and allow me to put a real motor in this thing one day lol.

 

[extremetownie]

Bygod if that dont cool it, there are other issues for sure.

 

[ranger11]

Id plumb a port in to hook to other rigs to help cool them off. That's badass.

 

[crzyamerican]

I agree. I was telling him the other day, when my steering gets hot, I'll just pull up next to him.

 

[1tonyj]

So just a little update...not long after the install of the new radiator (which is awesome) I proceeded to pretty much destroy my motor...#6 piston broke and #5 rod broke in half causing two nice holes in my aluminum block along with some other damage. In the pics you can see all the parts that were on top of the windage tray when we dropped it along with a pic of the driver head lol. This motor has always had lower oil pressure than id like and we knew it was suspect when we put it in but money was tight after just building the buggy and I was just trying to get it on the trail.. so the outcome wasn't surprising.